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> I expect them to take their place next to DeVry and other university level scams advertising on daytime television

50K Javascript jobs advertised at bus stops with a coding bootcamp URL.

We're already there.

> There is a huge demand, but everyone wants at least some experience.

Any job add with less than 5 years of experience is entry-level. Apply even with 0 years of experience.
> Okay a serious question: at what point does it make sense for these hedge fund guys to just purchase reddit and shut it down?

It would be irrelevant even if they could. The problem is/was not Reddit/WSB, but rather the positions that the hedge funds put themselves in.

Where are/were the PhDs in risk analysis at these places? How do you get into a position of shorts being >120% of the total float?

Take Willian Gibson's 'Law':

* The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed.

And take the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH):

* The price of a security reflects all the available information about it.

And when you combine them you have the principle that the information is out there (too many short contracts), but it wasn't evenly distributed—yet.† Until someone noticed it, and it started to spread, and that caused people to change their positions in GME.

Shutting down Reddit, or any other random forum, isn't going to stop someone from noticing the shorts.

This is no different than what happened in The Big Short: some folks noticed discrepancies (e.g., mortgage delinquencies) and acted first, and as that information spread the market "corrected" its price. It's just that it ended up causing the Great Recession.

The spread of information isn't instantaneous either: at the very least it is limited by the speed of light. After that, it's limited by either (a) human attention spans, and/or (b) the machine learning systems that humans programmed in automated systems.

† Edit: I propose this phenomenon, if not labelled already, be called "Gibson's Market Corollary".

--

Now the price of GME is kind of meta though, in that it doesn't reflect on what's know about GameStop, but rather someone 'related' to GameStop.
Regarding points 1 and 2, from the article:

"If you were to ask me right now, what's most concerning of all the things that I've heard so far, it's the fact that they are reporting a sudden increase in cases in Manaus, Brazil," virus expert Jeremy Luban at the University of Massachusetts told NPR two weeks ago before the variant arrived in the United States. "Manaus already had 75% of people infected [in the spring of last year]."

Regarding point 3 -- it is, of course, speculation, but for millenia the most-effective method of weather forecasting was constancy: "Tomorrow will be just like today". It could be better, it could be worse, but if we don't know anything, assuming that it will be similar seems like a good bet.

Edit: On first read, I missed "on reinfection" for point 3. Agreed. One definitely hopes that on reinfection, cases will be more mild.
I’d like to echo the socializing part. Granted it’s hard right now because of covid restrictions, but if you’ve deleted your social media you have to get yourself out there and socialize the analog way. Don’t be shy to say hi to people. Ask them what they are doing. Socialize at your regular routine stops. Reach out to that person you only kinda know from that thing one time and see if they want to come to something you’re doing.

You’ll find people are very willing to discuss things if you initiate. This is how we did it before social media and it’s by far the more pleasant way. Just don’t be a jerk, you’ll be fine.

MeetUp is a great resource too. I’ve even asked randoms on NextDoor if they want to meet up at the pub. There are ways to be social without the big social media platforms.
I have good insurance from my employer but I haven't been to a doctor in at least 10 years. I don't think it's a given that people get routine care just because insurance covers it, or would avoid it if they had to pay (a predictable, modest amount) for it out-of-pocket.
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you may be overestimating the responsibility of the people involved

I remember reading about people mortgaging their house to get into bitcoin, etc.

I don't know how the coming days will play out, but I'm quite confident when this is all over we'll be treated to stories in the NYT about how someone lost their life savings, alongside calls for regulation.
> Markets are a value ascribing heuristic machine. There is nothing about them that can deterministically point to objective value. However, the idea is that over a longer period of time, an approximation of true value emerges though wisdom of the crowd.

It's a beautiful idea in principle. Ultimately the reality that emerges will reflect the underlying values of the society.

Really makes you wonder about our values, given that presently emerging realities include an increasingly inhospitable homeworld.
The youtube video has been blocked:

> This video contains content from NBC Universal, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.
1.5x if it’s an APS-C sensor, 2x if it’s a micro 4/3rds, and 1x if it’s full frame (this is most likely if you’re shooting Nikon or Canon, Fujifilm mirror-less are APS-C, Panasonic et al are m4/3)
Do you have any concrete examples? I see it stated as a use case, but I've never seen it in the wild.

Personally speaking, I cross-compile daily using CMake with toolchain files. Some modern RTOSes use CMake exclusively e.g. Zephyr or mBed. CMake supports quite a few open source and proprietary toolchains, and they all work perfectly well, and integrate nicely with whatever build tools and IDEs you care to use.

Interactive flashing and debugging via JTAG or SWD/SWO in CLion, Eclipse or vsCode is nice. You aren't getting that with the autotools...
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It's entirely possible for short sellers to have legally borrowed more stock than is actually outstanding. There is no evidence that I've seen that they've done so illegally.
Me too. I suspect some of this is regulatory overhead and compliance. I can give pets injections (inoculations and antibiotics) without even talking to a vet. The only exception I ever ran into was antibiotics for a snake, as the feed store didn't carry that. To get those things for myself would require a prescription from a doctor.
See also

https://diep.io - original, abandoned

https://arras.io - fan made sequel

http://woomy-arras.io - sequel of sequel

(None of these load as fast)
Early exercise, plenty of cash.
You could re-post this exact comment but make it about Windows in 2005. Short term success can mask long term problems.
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan
I tried interviewing some.

The signal to noise ratio was just not worth it. Not a single hire.
How is this scenario any different when you tell your friend the password or show them a QR code? They can still get and share that password with anyone else...
> almost no one will get the HTTPS version unless you deliberately push them over to it, which you will only be able to do after page load by some JavaScript-based user-agent or feature-based sniffing, so now the page loads and then reloads immediately, every time the user visits your site by URL

This is false. All you have to do is configure your webserver to only redirect port 80 requests to port 443 if the request includes the "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests" header. Obviously since headers are sent unencrypted this means attackers could easily bypass it, but it's still suitable for personal webpages with no user data. For example, here's how you do it in Apache:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade-Insecure-Requests} =1

RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
Where have I stated that?
Nice! Interesting approach. I'll have to try to replicate this for my game[1] where the loading of some JS scripts is sometimes annoyingly high (in particular for the cookie consent for some reason).

> 80% of players said it was very fun.

Curious how you got this statistic, do you ask this in-game or did you do a case study with some friends?

Btw I just played and found the FPS to be quite low (there was a lot of things firing on me). This was Firefox on Windows. (Edit: tried Chrome and there is a visible difference, so you seem to have a bottleneck on FF)

1 - https://stardust.dev/play
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How far we have come from the days when people here argued that Tesla was dead the moment one of the big old car manufacturers was starting to build electric cars in earnest.
WebSockets. I found that WebRTC was complicated, full of bloat, and less reliable. Most home TCP connections don't have enough packet dropping to warrant something like SCTP, the transport protocol behind WebRTC. If we wanted to mitigate head of line blocking we'd just alternate between two websockets.
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You can manage risk with stop-loss. Its not really that hard. You can use this to "lock-in" profits without selling.
Not even remotely accurate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...

The US is 22nd by median net wealth.
For years now, Mac OS X has had a bug where if you download a file like an image from the internet, and want to upload it elsewhere, there's a long delay (10-30 seconds or more) before the file shows up in your file system to select it.

This problem has been ongoing for years and Apple still hasn't fixed it. Even brand new, maxed out Macbooks have this problem. In an era where much of what people do online is rapidly downloading and reposting content across platforms, it's unacceptable Apple can let such a ghetto problem go unfixed.
> When they submit H-1B applications, they submit the same form 10 times so their employees get selected because they figured out that the H-1B selection process is literally someone grabbing a random envelope from a mail container.

It's time these visas get a pool per country so we can punish the ones that are trying very hard to abuse it.
That's a good point. I suspect maybe we're overthinking things a bit. Most movements that enter the spotlight have spent a good amount of time growing behind the scenes beforehand. We can push for class reform without framing it as reframing race issues and wait for its time in the spotlight later.
There seems to be a fashion for .io domains among the cool sites. From what I see, the domain isn't cheap: this one is $32.98/yr from NameCheap. When I am going to start a web experiment, I think I am going to go with .xyz which goes for $1, because I'm cheap.

Is there anything inherently useful in running a domain like .io?
> The price of goods at Walmart is not based on your bet on supply and demand.

This is a specious argument. You literally could go out, borrow your friend's crate of 10,000 bananas, sell them on the open market, then wait for the price of bananas to crash, and then buy them back (maybe even the same crate!) and give them back to your friend, plus whatever the banana margin costs. Effectively, if you were to do this at scale, you would directly be influencing the price of goods at Walmart. Mechanically, this isn't how it works, and I don't think there are banana futures and options, but thinking that all derivatives activity is speculation is simply naïve.

On the GameStop excitement, all I have to say is...

"Apes, together.. strong."
>Shifts in the Overton window do not come about simply with the suggestion of radical policy proposals

If those proposes are frequent enough, and adopted widely, they do.

>Change only comes in the face of a tidal wave of evidence and an energized advocacy strategy.

People could not care less about "evidence" (unless it supports their side), and an "energized advocacy strategy" is another way to describe what the author tried to deny, the "overton window shifting" by advocacy.

The only myth here, is that it doesn't have to happen by radical advocacy (to get people to "meet in the middle"). It can just as well happen by very slowly gradually moving towards one or the other direction regarding some topic. So, you could just add tons of +0.1 proposals and get to move to +10 eventually, you don't need to propose +50 in the hopes you'll get to +10.
Why? There are plenty of OO libraries where method calls do not change the object.
I used to hang out in that subreddit before I deleted my account.
Most of them are
a) lurking
b) goofing around with maybe a few hundred dollars (I was in that category)
c) people from hedge funds

There was a tiny minority that did stupid things like buy $20k of options on credit cards but there's a minority of stupid people like that everywhere.
if you check out the forums, most of them have wives
But the WiFi specs don't work that way...
Which would be entertainment value, fitting into number 1 above (ie reasons unrelated to profit expectations)
This seems like a case of randomness plus sample bias equals overgeneralization. In case of indignation, multiply by 10x.

Separately: Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Not to mention, whatever they thought of their concept, the concept itself can still hold.
> fiscal 2021 first quarter ended December 26, 2020

This makes zero sense. Why does the first financial quarter of a year occur the quarter before? Why does it end on December 26th?
Do you think your arguments against the tax code and increased employment presuppose a more perfect world than we have and increased employment could be considered an intermediate step along the way?

That is, right now, we don't have UBI and the safety net, at least in the US, is very weak, so employment and decreased unemployment _are_ necessary for the time being and the ideal state described here is many more steps away than the current status quo.
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No, if Melvin is buying calls they are not covering. They are making a profit they can use to mitigate their losses covering later.
> We used the “percentage-rejected” metric minus the false negatives to ballpark the $1.7 million total annual savings.

I think this may too sanguine for the false negatives in that it ignore latency sensitivity. Generally, batch processing (like preview generation during pre-warming) is cheaper than latency sensitive processing (like preview generation when the user is waiting for it). If you don’t take that into account, you can be misled by your cost metrics.
Object oriented programming is not about defining classes. It's about using objects. You don't have to define new classes to do OOP. Just use existing classes and objects polymorphically!

url_layout.format()
resp.raise_for_status()
resp.json()
session.add()

All those calls are dynamically dispatched - the essence of object oriented programming. This is what allows you to not worry about:
* which string implementation `url_layout` uses
* which HTTP protocol, encryption, authentication, chunking `resp` uses
* what database is connected to `session`

You cannot avoid using objects - that's how all modern operating systems work.

Using classes without the need to call them polimorphically just as a nice namespace for methods is a separate issue.
For most people Apple's products live beyond the expected life range (compared to the rest of the industry).
The US system works like this

* hospitals run as non profits, so they dont pay federal taxes

* they still pay local taxes, so they need to generate a large loss to offset these taxes

* insurance companies negotiate huge "discounts" on list prices, and then go back to their customers (large corporations) and boast about these discounts, meanwhile the hospital gets its tax writeoff

This entire system is rigged to also grow the number of hospitals/ the overall size of healthcare in america.

Pharma companies play this game too, and anyone who doesnt have insurance can quietly get a "coupon" from them to bring down the cash price to the same as insurance.

No politician will close hospitals, so at this stage any move to "single payer" will just move the boasting role to the government.
> Where product-attributes is a key-value thing

The problem with this approach (and I've done it) is that product-attributes is now this black hole that's difficult to query, difficult to modify, a huge potential for errors that could even be caused by a typo. It's also incredibly difficult to version.

I regret going with this approach even though it results in far fewer tables and classes. It's short term gain for long term pain. Everything is trade off -- it might well be more than worth it for something not expected to live long or have a lot of changes.

Although I agree with your point that not everything needs to be hierarchy. You can be explicit with your data without having everything inherit from everything else.
Doesn't stop it from being a shameful little piece of public masturbation of criminal scum. One assumes that Mr. Friedman has fairly sophisticated friends in intellectual circles in New York or elsewhere, do none of them not read such dreck and cringe at how their buddy bent himself over for yet another one of history's murderous "reformers" for the sake of a bit of cheap elevation?
I really appreciate your reply, you've definitely got the gears turning in my head.

Something to clarify, I'm not really trying to say that people like that want to be evil. People like Shkreli make bad choices not because they like to be bad, but because they're indifferent to the indirect consequences of their choices. I'm extremely skeptical that someone in a position like Shkreli was would be in any serious risk of losing access to essentials like food and shelter if they were to behave more ethically, so I think it's important to set the standard that choosing a job like that when you have alternatives is wrong.

All that being said, I do agree with you that the primary problem by far is the exploitative structure that enables these people to exist in these positions, in the first place. If someone's analysis of the situation ended at Shkreli, I'd encourage them to think deeper. However, I do strongly believe that we don't have to choose between one or the other -- encouraging others to look down on those who choose to be a part of this system can have a significant influence by discouraging others from entering it, themselves. The more voices we have saying "this is not something to aspire to," the more pressure we can build to effect meaningful systemic change.
I was born late 1980s and I think by that point we still didn't have any evidence of extrasolar planets...

...but damn if it wasn't bloody obvious there must be some.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political/ideological battle. That's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

Creating accounts to do that with will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

These rules apply regardless of which ideology an account is battling for or against. Our goal is not to have this site burn to a crisp of a particular color, but rather to have it not burn to a crisp at all.

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This is insane. Mess up with this and you could end up with a serious infection
I don't even think the SEC would have to characterize the WSB commenters as a group, merely that "alone or with 1 or more persons" they caused trades that increased GME's price and that their goal was to cause others to buy/sell the stock. The real question is why wouldn't the SEC get involved!

15 U.S. Code § 78(i)(a)(2) - Manipulation of security prices

[It shall be unlawful...] ...to effect, alone or with 1 or more other persons, a series of transactions in any security registered on a national securities exchange, any security not so registered, or in connection with any security-based swap or security-based swap agreement with respect to such security creating actual or apparent active trading in such security, or raising or depressing the price of such security, for the purpose of inducing the purchase or sale of such security by others.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/78i
It's a risk assessment calculation, and usually the lawyers make that call.

At a previous company I worked at legal considered it cheaper to reinvent the wheel if necessary to avoid GPL software than to potentially have to deal with a lawsuit around GPL being used in our software.

Even LGPL software was considered off-limits, because one wrong linker flag and now it's statically linked into the resulting binary...
Interesting way of looking at these terms. If you want a bit of a higher level look, check out the SF Encyclopedia! I've found a LOT of great books and ideas just skimming through this:

http://sf-encyclopedia.com/category/themes/theme

Watch out for spoilers in the descriptions though.
The game is lagging a bit because of the sudden influx of new players– new servers are being spun up as fast as we can.

Edit: New game servers are up. If your game is lagging, refresh the page.
I definitely struggled with something similar when I first deleted Facebook. It's definitely harder in terms of "discoverability" to connect with people you enjoy spending time with.

But over time that difficulty lessened. I found the connections I made outside of Facebook were longer lasting and more meaningful, because there was actually some onus on me to try and stay engaged. And people do respond well when you demonstrate you care to engage in a deeper fashion. It feels like relationship building / maintenance in today's age is something of a lost art, because it's become so easy to superficially connect without putting in a bunch of work.

The big social platforms make you want to believe there's a monopoly on societal participation. Pushing back against that energy is such a powerful thing, even if it's somewhat isolating in the short-term.
Wouldn’t the normal thing be for Tesla to license/rent their existing infrastructure out to other brands? It mainly becomes an issue if Tesla decides its part of their car value — but otherwise they could basically 100% own and entirely govern the development of America’s charging network
The culture of distraction distracts everyone from realizing they'll die.

Disability is just the fine print.

I remember walking around in a city after a parent died, and the world seemed like an illusion.
Libtool attempted (badly) to solve portability problems between the diverse range of linkers on 90s Unix platforms. Its versioning scheme is utterly insane. It made a slightly difficult problem incredibly complex, and for no good reason.

Every current platform of note has a perfectly good linker, making libtool redundant. More often than not, it's been an "anti-portability" impediment when it thinks it knows how to drive modern linkers but because it's barely maintained, it gets it wrong by trying to be too clever.

Even proprietary embedded toolchains come with full-fat ELF linkers these days.

Of all of the pieces which make up the Autotools, libtool is the one which could be dropped today with zero impact. It's the least useful and the least necessary of them all.
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